Episode 32: Jared Tendler

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Jared Tendler, author of May book club book The Mental Game of Poker 2, talks about his transition from aspiring pro golfer to psychology student to mental game coach. Then talk turns to his new book and your questions!

Timestamps

0:39 Hello and Welcome: Playing poker with a dead man
12:00 Strategy: Playing a big draw on the turn
47:40 Interview: Jared Tendler
1:11:17  Book Club: The Mental Game of Poker 2 with author Jared Tendler

Strategy

$1/$2 NLHE Hero opens to $16 with 6s 4s, BB calls.

Flop Tc 8s 5h ($33 in pot). Both check.

Turn 3s ($33 in pot). Villain bets $17, Hero…

Book Club

Next week we’ll discuss Chapters 3 and 4 of The Mental Game of Poker 2, pages 57 – 117

12 thoughts on “Episode 32: Jared Tendler”

  1. I’m not sure if this level of lag is normal or not, but as of 5:30 PM PST the RSS feed for the Podcast does NOT include this episode of the podcast (the last entry is the repost of episode 31).

    Love the podcast, looking forward to listening to this episode.

  2. Before this podcast I never conceptualize unconscious incompetence as ego and unconscious competence for intuition.
    It makes sense.It means that thinking and analyzing your ego or intuition is not the way to go.
    The practical example will be following a self-analysis:”I know I tilt”
    The self-assessment does not change anything.
    You tilted in the past.You will tilt in the future. LOL.
    Good podcast.

    • By the way Andrew you had pretty interesting question about goal setting orientation and common miss-perception.
      I admit I was not aware I sung the bad mantra(good process vs bad result).
      However I had impression that you considered goal setting to be exclusive job of the conscious mind.
      This is a miss-perception too.
      The unconscious does goals setting as well.
      The end result is that we have often dual motives and goals.
      We can consciously abhor racism and hold pure racist attitudes(plenty of studies).
      Of course there is possibility that conscious goal could have been primed by unconscious goal too.

      My own number one problem is laziness.
      I assume that the problem is caused by contradiction in motives and goals between my unconscious and conscious.
      I assume because of I do not have choice.
      The condition for introspection of unconscious are based on several assumptions.
      The number on assumption is that the unconscious can be made conscious.
      The introspection of unconscious is itself a sort of self-narrative built out of very limited source information.
      The information is often not objective.
      The information could be confabulated by ego.(why PS rigged game against me? How I know I again lose this coin flip?).
      It is not always the case that you are able to spot confabulation.

  3. thanks for posting my hand. just realized i didn’t send you the end result. not sure if you want me to post it here in a couple days or what.

    • also effectives were 200$ (crucial info I failed to mention, my hh needs improvement)

      • Result:
        Turn:
        Villain leads for 17$, hero raises to $45, villain calls. $123 in pot.

        River:
        7s. Villain checks. Hero bets all-in (has villain covered, villain has $139). Villain tanks for a full minute and calls. Hero wins with flush. Villain mucks. Total pot $401.

        Sorry about the lack of effective stack size, should have noted it was 200$ due to him winning a few hands. I thought it was important to note that villain bought in for $100 rather than the full max buy in of $300 because typically we can make a few generalizations based on the intial buy in amounts our opponents choose. To sum it up, he bought in for 100$, got stacked. Rebought $100, built to $200 when this hand occured.

        • Interesting hand.
          And in this case, I think the slight confusion about stacks and the open/riase enabled our hosts to expand the discussion.

  4. Just want to say good job. I think Jared talked less poker than even Tommy, but it was perhaps the most helpful interview yet.
    I’m a self-help geek anyway, but the interview motivated me. I’m off to try to fix lots of leaks, and not just in poker.

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